Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Southern California Law Review Postscript
Volume
97
Publication Date
2024
Abstract
This Comment looks at eighty-seven statutory interpretation cases in the Supreme Court’s docket over the 2020–2022 Terms to evaluate trends in how the nation’s highest court reads statutes in the modern era. It concludes that the overarching story is neither a purely “textualist” one, nor one in which the liberal bloc is very often at odds with the conservative bloc. Instead, statutory interpretation is much more consensual than it is often credited to be—and contextual and purposive arguments continue to remain valid modalities of interpretation, even as standard textualist tools also remain relevant.
Recommended Citation
Ethan J. Leib and Fordham University School of Law,
Statutory Interpretation in the 2020s: A View of the Cathedral, 97 S. Cal. L. Rev. Postscript 11
(2024)
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/1348
